Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Chicago was once a major hub of film production, but being silent film you don’t hear much about it.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

Cold War missile launch site which has been converted to a public park.

The face of a woman pushes its way through the earth.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying The Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

World's largest Christmas store.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Narrowest house in Boston.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This Detroit ruin was once a gothic bastion of its community, but now it stands as a haunting ruin.

Enormous small-business mecca in the Midwest, serving dozens of artists.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

This lovely public park has an intriguing past and unique wooden bridges made of concrete.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.